If you knew there was money sitting out there, just waiting for you to ask for it, you would ask, wouldn’t you? Well, here you go, Boulder. There is money sitting out there just waiting for the community to ask, and the time to do it is now. Actually, time is running away from us quickly.
Several options for grants and loans are now open for application, including some that sound ideal for what Boulder has said it wants to do to ‘make Boulder’s future bright.’ (See the article in this issue about Department of Commerce grant applications.) Main Street Montana grants come due in August. The Jefferson Local Development Corporation is ready and willing to help Boulder apply for money, and the community has $500,000 available to use as matching funds to leverage more funds through those grants.
Available Boulder business owners were scheduled to meet Tuesday morning to get the ball rolling on a Main Street Montana application. Before many of the grant applications can go in, though, the Boulder Development Fund (BDF) must be formed.
